Joseph Nicolas Robert FLEURY (1797-1890) Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie inaugurating the new Commercial Court, sketch Oil on canvas (Original canvas) Dedicated lower left "To his colleague and friend Bailly". Identification of the figures on the reverse of the canvas 74 x 105 cm (Minor restorations) Provenance : - Léon Bailly, Michaud family in Orléans ; - Christopher Forbes Collection; - Its sale, Fontainebleau, 6 March 2016, lot 182 Exhibition : Nassau County Museum of art, Napoléon & Eugénie, Opulence and Splendor of French's Second Empire, 7 June - 7 September 2009 The Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie inaugurate the new commercial court, oil on canvas, by Joseph Nicolas Robert Fleury Joseph Nicolas Robert Fleury succeeded François Marius Granet at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1850. He was appointed director of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1863 and of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Rome the following year. Joseph Nicolas Robert FLEURY (1797-1890)